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Chris Banes
Android Software Engineer with a love of writing user interfaces
Jetpack Compose
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Kotlin
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Android UI
Composable metrics
Exploring the Compose Compiler metrics to see what we can find out about the performance of our composables.
Jetpack Compose
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Android UI
Slotting in with Compose UI
The Slot API pattern is a pattern which is used extensively throughout the Compose UI codebase. This post explores the benefits of using the pattern in your own composables.
Jetpack Compose
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Android UI
Always provide a Modifier parameter
Modifiers are probably my favourite thing in Compose. They truly encapsulate the idea of composition over inheritance, by providing a number of interfaces and implementations to attach logic and behavior to layouts.
Google
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AppCompat
Becoming a Xoogler
At the end of next week I will be leaving my job at Google and moving on to a new challenge outside $GOOG.
Android Libraries
Publishing to Maven Central
A collection of resources which make it easy to publish your library to Maven Central.
Website
New website... again
How I migrated my personal site to use the JAMStack model, using Ghost and Gatsby to completely over-engineer my personal humble blog and website.
Kotlin
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Kotlin Coroutines
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Animations
Suspending over Views
How to Kotlin Coroutines can be used for animations and more with views.
Kotlin
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Kotlin Coroutines
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Animations
Suspending over Views — Example
This blog post is the second of two which explores how coroutines enables you to write complex asynchronous UI operations in a much simpler way. The first post goes through the theory, while this post demonstrates how they fix a problem.
WindowInsets
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Data Binding
WindowInsets — Listeners to layouts
If you’ve watched my Becoming a Master Window Fitter talk, you’ll know that handling window insets can be complex. Recently I’ve been improving system bar handling in a few apps, enabling them to draw behind the status and navigation bars.
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